jQuery Core Team Meeting – Jan 24 2011

Minutes (Notes) of the meeting of jQuery
Location: #jquery-meeting on Freenode
Time: Monday January 24, 2011 at Noon ET

Official Agenda:

AGENDA for Mon Jan 24 Noon jQuery Meeting
Duration is 1 hour, so please keep comments brief and to the point to facilitate discussion on all topics

CORE

• jQuery 1.5 RC Status

  • Should come out today or tomorrow, at the latest.

• Blockers

  • Full List

    • http://bugs.jquery.com/report/74

  • #8036 .closest(selectorArray) returns duplicates (Dave)

    • John:  This is the intended behavior – it returns elements for each selector.
    • Status: Closed, invalid

  • #7340 .focus() not triggering focusin event for .live binding (1.4.3)? (Dave)

    • Will likely require a re-architecture
    • Status: Push to 1.6

  • #7992 jQuery 1.5b1 is slower to remove elements than 1.4.2 (Colin and Rick)

    • Looks like the jsfiddle perf was poorly constructed
    • Need to make a new perf test case and doubly-verify

• Ajax Rewrite

  • Documentation
    • https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/q-api-ajax

• Deferreds

  • Documentation
    • http://api.jquery.com/category/deferred-object/

• Subclassing

  • Documentation
    • http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.subclass/